title: Getting the numbers right. CIO's find the use of HR and staffing solutions pays major dividends.
abstract: CIOs, CEOs, and other senior executives in hospital organizations are pursuing a number of approaches to leverage clinical and other key data in order to analyze staffing needs, and are working to optimize staffing, as they address the single biggest operating cost for most hospitals: labor.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hagland
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States